Rabelaisian

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to Rabelais or his works.

adj. Characterized by coarse humor or bold caricature.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Pertaining to the works of Rabelais. Specifically, it means a style of satirical humour characterized by exaggerated characters and coarse jokes.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to François Rabelais (about 1490–1553), a French priest, author of “Gargantua and Pantagruel”; resembling or suggestive of Rabelais and the characteristics of his thought and style. Compare Pantagruelism.

Not only has he lived the life – his 20s were, by his own account, a decade devoted to disastrous financial punts and druggy self-destruction in his family's Mexican mansion – but he has the Rabelaisian prose style to match.

In the dark sewer of misanthropic, gynophobic, and Rabelaisian epithets running through the comments section of celebrity blogs, one can also find gems of authentic emotional connection to celebrity foibles from readers who have suffered tragedies of their own, or been drunk, high, or on pills and up way past their normal bedtimes.